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Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar
Summary
Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busa'id (خالد بن برغش البوسعيد; 1874–1927) was the sixth Sultan of Zanzibar.
Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busa'id was born on 1874 in Zanzibar, the second son of Barghash bin Said (برغش بن سعيد البوسعيد), the second Sultan of Zanzibar.
He was 16 years old when, on 13 February 1890 the reigning Sultan Sayyid Khalifa bin Said Al-Busa'id (خليفة بن سعيد البوسعيد), the successor to Bargash bin Said, died after a short reign of 2 years. He was succeeded by Sayyid Ali bin Said Al-Busa'id (علي بن سعيد البوسعيد). Soon after, in July 1890, with the Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty (Helgoland-Sansibar-Vertrag) between the German Empire and the United Kingdom, Germany agreed to "recognize the British protectorate over ... the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba" and the Sultan was forced to accede to the new power on the island. During his reign, a civil list had been drawn up reducing his income, and various departments, including the police force, had been created by the then British Consul Gerald Portal, each department under a European.
When Khalid bin Barghash was 19 years old, Rennell Rodd arrived in Zanzibar, in the New Year of 1893, to replace Gerald Portal. Immediately, the succession of the ailing Sultan was discussed and three candidates emerged. "There was Khaled, son of Barghash, a rather truculent youth of eighteen: there was Hamed Bin Thwain, the son of a brother of Barghash now dead, a man of about forty, of reputed high character and a student of Arab literature : and finally there was Mahmoud, an elder cousin of the reigning Sultan." Khalid bin Barghash, despite his very strong claims to the throne as the son of Bargash, in Rennell Rodds, view "was, however, for other reasons undesirable."
During Rennell Rodd's last visit to the Sultan, when he presented Cecil Rhodes at his court in March 1893, it was obvious to him that the Sultan had not long to live. Accordingly, he made preparations for daily and nightly signals to be exchanged with HMS Philomel and HMS Blanche where marines were to be at the ready with machine guns.
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